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The strangely named project from Minecraft maker Markus "Notch" Persson is most likely going to charge players with monthly subscription for in-game ship ownership. Markus revealed this when speaking to the folks at PC Gamer. His statement indicated that players will possess their spaceships within the game...

Check out the latest test footage 0x10c: Markus Persson and Tobias Mollstam talk more about 0x10c, Mojang's latest project. Here's a snip from an article over at PC Gamer: "You can try to land on a planet but you mess up and, instead of having the ship just explode like it would in real life, the landing gear gets broken...

Markus 'Notch' Persson, creator of Minecraft and co-founder of Mojang, is protesting against Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8 (thanks, CVG). "Got an e-mail from Microsoft wanting to help 'certify' Minecraft for Windows 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the PC as an open platform," tweeted Persson to followers. His message has been retweeted over 2700 times...

Wow, I think the idea of Notch working on an Elite-style space sim is pretty awesome. I only hope he doesn't get any funny ideas about players building their own pixel-shaped planets and then fighting armies of pixelized space-sheeps. That would suck big-time. What I really want is a game like Mass Effect, but with more tactics, more trading, more micro-managing. Well, something a bit like the X series. Wait a second, that game already exists. See ya later...

Markus 'Notch' Persson is reportedly working on a "sandbox space trading sim" that's being described as a title similar to Elite, the open-ended space sim classic from 1984 (thanks Joystiq). There's only one difference, though. Instead of just maneuvering and flying a spaceship across the far regions of the galaxy...

Yesterday, Double Fine Productions' Tim Schafer uncovered that he had the ambition to work on a sequel to the platform game Psychonauts. Having pitched the idea to several publishers, Tim revealed that they just weren't interested. At the same time...

"Let's make Psychonauts 2 happen," tweeted Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson. Still, there's no official confirmation on whether or not the well-known game designer will assume the task of delivering the sequel to Double Fine's once popular platform game...

On this fine day, we've discovered that the ever-popular game Minecraft (still in pre-release form) has reached a user base of 10 million. Not only that, but it sold 3 million copies worldwide and it's not even a complete game. That's impressive shit, you have to admit...

While we're on subject of Minecraft, word just got out that a Swedish law firm, representing publisher and developer Bethesda Softworks, is suing the creators of the popular open-world game. It appears that this suit is not related to Minecraft (a product still in not completed, by the way)...

Following last month's news that the worldwide online phenomenon Minecraft surpassed 10 million users, another report came in, which states that the game has sold over 3 million copies - as tweeted by Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of Minecraft. That ain't bad for a title that's still in its testing stage.

The hugely popular indie game, Minecraft, continues to thrive with a ever-growing community behind it, despite the fact that the game is still on its alpha stage. In response to a question on a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread, the creator of the immensely popular game gave a nice round figure, separating roughly 800,000 alpha version sales at the introductory €9...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson revealed during the GDC that he's working on a new project, well, it's a new strategy game, apparently. "It's actually been quite interesting to hear the reactions from people in the business when we have presented the idea behind Scrolls...

Minecraft, the independently developed world-building game, reached a peak in sales. The game had enough marketing exposure recently, what with the recent server issues, which subsequently led to a free-to-play weekend that attracted a great number of players...